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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= David Jester"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= Forever After: a dark comedy<!-- Hogan -->|rating= 4-|genrestyle= Paranormal"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|summarylink= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortalityhttp://www.amazon.co. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatuk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|author=Nina StibbeGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasHumour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|rating=4.5Paranormal]]|genre=Humour |summary=Christmas – Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the time remains of traditional traumaher mother's life after her death. You only have Whilst there, she returns to think about the turkey Paradise hotel, a haven for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnighteccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and if let go of thoughts that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bettorment them elsewhere. Nowadays it's all having Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to make sure itpick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's suitably freeParadise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat italign: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boonsco. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thankuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in longalign: top; text-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0241309824</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author=Ian DoescherStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth AwakenCrime]], [[:Category: Star Wars Part the SeventhHumour|rating=4.5Humour]]|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A long time agoComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, in a galaxy far awayand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, there was a man called William Shakespearehe's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, who was able to create a series plus the chance of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulmaybe, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyjust maybe reuniting with his ex. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of However, when his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''rival is found dead, but here at last we get Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the actual script, complete with annoying-con in-different-ways-order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to-before droids anewzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvredoing so, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk!-- Coulton -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=James Goss and Russell T Davies"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|titlelink=Doctor Whohttp: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summarystyle=Consider the Doctor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], say, for example[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemiesrelationships. As luck would have itThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, he is a sixth form English teacher who has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advancerecently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, so my advice to him – sorrya work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readymother. And if youThis relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.s father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=Annie Ingramthebookbag-21]]|title=Conversations with Kammie|rating=4|genrestyle=Pets"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You seeCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], Annie knows something which has been self[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-evident to me for Cons are a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with humans other fans and not just on a level creators, plus the chance of ''food!''maybe, ''walk!'' or ''play!''just maybe reuniting with his ex. You do require extensive training to become fluentHowever, when his rival is found dead, but most dogs will be perfectly willing Mike is forced to give their time navigate every dark corner of the con in order to teach you clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and all you have intrusive fans to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversationszombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|author= Charles Harris-|titlestyle= The Breaking of Liam Glass"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag= 3thebookbag-21]] |genre=Crime|summarystyle= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's plenty here to like, Choosing by Kitty Curran and plenty not toLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|author= Fred Van Lente|title= Ten Dead ComediansHumour]], [[:Category: A Murder MysteryHistorical Fiction|rating= 4Historical Fiction]]|genre= Humour|summary= Nine comedians You are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise lass of working with Dustin Walkertwenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a comedic legendsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washedAlong your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood -up has-been who has fallen far a fiesty noble eager to save you from his early days; Zoea life alone, the rising female star with and fired by a new stand-up special coming soon; Danterogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, who went from being a kid on the streets you'll have to make the hardest working road comic in ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the business; Olivermad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the child-like prop comic who canway, it's clear this isn't get any respect from his peersgoing to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; Janet, the insult comic who is past her primevertical-align: top; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest actstext-align: center; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionairedark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a beam of light cocky and asks for your helpbrash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, what a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the hell else are you going records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to say?''sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=S Lynn Scott"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|titleleft|link=Elizabeth, Williamhttps://www.amazon.co. and Meuk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job=[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window5star. It's not a coincidence that it's jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard time of Avon in her bathtraditional trauma. What's she going You only have to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas think about the turkey for that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeon– once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this seriessuitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man and get too friendly with it to track down some missing valuableswant to eat it. Bill GalbraithChristmas, though, is of course also a world-famous surgeon at Cambridgetime of great boons. It's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts cash in hand for a popular medical television programmelot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, has had his briefcase stolen by his liveit was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-in domestic servant, Aurora. According you letters to Galbraithaunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient and as for the makers of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theftMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, assuming it will be a relatively easy did they even try and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world sell them any other time of deceit and dysfunction.the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|ratingleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=5159474985X]] |genre=Women's Fiction|summarystyle=As predicted by Caroline and Janice"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictedthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house5star. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and over her ex-husband Alecheroines most sturdy. She still dreams of him, yesYou may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's here at last we get the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Meet actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the Isles of Scillyfamily til it hurts. (I know they should be called that And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the author provides a handy guide series is so popular we're on to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, theypart seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare're several chunks of granite rock out in s the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and so idyllicSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!--seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presenceGoss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his workjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody|rating=3.5|genre=Humour[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=It's Christmas Eve Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives Verse|Children's Rhymes and the food shopping deliveryVerse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have the potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedhand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, read on. In these pages you too will see for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end some of junctureshis friends and enemies. And to what result? WellAs luck would have it, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because he has the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrellingspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, or Death by Tybalt (so my advice to him) or – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenshorter timescale, such as with a Lady M (her)shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits<!-- Ingram -->|rating= 4.5-|genrestyle= Humour"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|summaryleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at homeUTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas relief when I was younger, back when it was magical, encountered Annie Ingram and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas partiesher cocker spaniel Kammie. This book is an anthology of those momentsYou see, and it took Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me right back to the wonder for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of Christmas as communicating with humans and not just on a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writerslevel of food!, in this case getting walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to Crowley after he do is no longer with uslisten. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the optimism of there being more pair have allowed us to come has the poignancy share some of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewtheir conversations. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked [[Conversations with Kammie by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapAnnie Ingram|Full Review]] <!--washedHarris -foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: front page, seat of your pants stuffHarris_Glass. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1783296518<http://amazonuk>www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Gray Jolliffe"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category: it's my least favourite time of year {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and whilst some people count down to stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the day itselfinside scoop, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for another year. It's all too commercialised a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for mere-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the least funny - that iswrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of ChristmasBreaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE --themed cartoons from his archive.>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions[[image:Lente_10.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.5|genre=Humourco.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|summary===If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changing[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundantjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be deliveredcomedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, we have to keep new stand-up with the latest fadsspecial coming soon; Dante, and we're supposed who went from being a kid on the streets to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear t get any respect from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayhis peers; Janet, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksinsult comic who is past her prime; TJ, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his friends mean trouble. As Billy female colleagues and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and fortune, as well as Blogger with a ranking high chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the FBIContractor's most wanted list' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of the American political, economic light and military systemsasks for your help, they soon come to realise that what the Powers that Be don't play gameshell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: they make war. A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Entertainment "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003==[[Elizabeth, William... Yes, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is really pukkaan ordinary woman with teenage children, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or anothera husband and a job. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating Then comes the stony-faced reception day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It''s not a coincidence thatit'' drop through s the open bar hatchsame day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and ''Will have their own ideas about that'' chandelier scene! [[Elizabeth, but this is much more meatyWilliam... Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Mara Wilson"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref= Where Am I Nownosim?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fametag=thebookbag-21]]|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summarystyle= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon's Case: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boysGeorge Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the sole clinically depressed member second instalment of a cheerleading squadthis series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a valley girl in New York and well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of -famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke''Melrose Places Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme,'' to losing her mother at a young agehas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe tripGalbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to not being cute enough to make look into the theft, assuming it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young womanwill be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's journey from accidental fame about to relative obscurity, but also illuminate enter a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, world of deceit and figuring out who you are and where you belongdysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Jordan -->}}{{newreview|author= Tony Stuart-|titlestyle= Writing Lines|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.5jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=Humourthebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-align: top; text-2011) lived a humdrum life. 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From losing all the pupils in his charge [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their Caroline and Henry's weddingday, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wastheir marriage is over, blinkered albeit 15 years and befuddledtwo daughters further along than predicted. 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Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi They're big on tourism, and before long there was an investigative big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best Friend's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988idyllic-seeming, Charlestonespecially at night, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradeyou can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But after an evening there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...differentthem in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. 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Arthur Bryant All she now has to do is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer'sawait the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. His condition is worsening almost by Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinationspotential to ruin everything.[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk!-- Phinn -->}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith-|titlestyle=The Voyage of the Dolphin"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=5thebookbag-21]]|genre=Historical Fiction|summarystyle=Dublin 1916"vertical-align: Among the unrest and antitop; text-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. 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Whether battle cry or epitaphshops on Christmas Eve, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywayfood cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticksseason would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and the way she moved it took me from an inner-city flat right back to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walkingwonder of Christmas as a child. 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